May 2006 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

new DVD idea
by tomhorsley＠adelphia.net 02 May '06

02 May '06

I think some mail I sent with this slipped through the cracks the other day, so I'm trying again. Here's my brand new idea for how to get DVD images with none of the ever increasing problems with signatures on files: SUSE doesn't want to distribute both DVD and CD iso images due to the impact on mirrors and network traffic, but what about this plan: Create the DVD with the same packages as the 5 CDs, organize the media as it is supposed to be organized, sign all the files correctly, etc. Then, remove all the actual .rpm files from the tree, and make an iso of just the DVD infrastructure that is left over. This will be a relatively small file that could easily be distributed with the CDs. Now, folks who want a DVD need only download the infrastructure iso, and the CD images, copying the .rpm files off the CDs back into the DVD tree, then they can make a new iso with the properly signed files from the DVD infrastructure image and the .rpm files recovered from the CD images. This should be a much simpler script to write than the current makeSUSEdvd and will actually have officially correct signatures on all the files to make all the installers happy. So how bout it? Can we get it in time for 10.2 testing? :-).

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Factory updated on our server...
by Andreas Jaeger 02 May '06

02 May '06

Factory is updated on our server again - and is synced out to the mirrors. We've seen a number of reports of about segmentation faults in YaST with the factory tree. There were two problems: * bad error handling in YaST * Wrong release in distversion in the content file The inst-source/content file should have "DISTVERSION 10.1-factory" instead of "DISTVERSION 10.1-factory-beta" (the extra minus was the problem). The second problem is fixed in the factory tree, the first one will be fixed soon. Therefore I advise to check that factory is updated before using the tree before installation. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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delta is and bittorrent
by jdd 02 May '06

02 May '06

I think I know why deltaisos are used for RCx (quite small), but this is not that friendly for users. may be this will not be a problem in the furutre, if the net install is finally fixed :-) but just in case it's not, is it possible to have .bittorrent available for RC3 ISO (not delta) without having the isos on the server? many users will have them after some days and could share them in bittorrent jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos

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Re: [opensuse-factory] makeSUSEdvd error
by houghi.org 02 May '06

02 May '06

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 08:30:41AM +0200, Ulrich Windl wrote: > On 30 Apr 2006 at 22:24, houghi wrote: > > > LOCAL_KEY=$(gpg --fingerprint | grep ^pub | awk '{print $2}' | cut -d"/" -f2) > > LOCAL_KEY=$(gpg --fingerprint | awk '/^pub/ {print $2}' | cut -d"/" -f2) > > What if two keys match? 1) Please reply to the list. That way others can learn, answer and/or read as well. 2) First I want to have a working version with one key. After that I can look into details, like selecting a key, what defaults should be and what if there are more then one key. At this moment I am testing on a POC (Prrof Of Concept) principal. I test with 1 key only. Say if I do all the key selection first and it would not work, I would have no idea wether this is due to an error in the simple pgp stings, or because of the more advanced things. Also as long as there is no POC, there is no need to waste time on anything else, because it does not work. :-( kind regards, houghi -- http://houghi.org A website about a SUSE 9.1 experience

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Off-topic: Joke of the day
by Ulrich Windl 02 May '06

02 May '06

In syslog: kernel: novfs: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag. If the novfs (part of Novell Client) is not supported by Novell, by whom is it supported at all? If you replace "Novell" with "Linux community" ist's fine again. Regards, Ulrich

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changelog?
by Peter Czanik 01 May '06

01 May '06

Hello, What happened to the factory changelog? I started a sync this morning and all I got is: ------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Changelog.i386 ---------- Sun Apr 30 15:41:47 CEST 2006 ------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ It's not too much :-) Bye, CzP

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